350 General Meeting and Report for 1875. 
II Aubrey, after quoting the inscription, says (Nat. Hist. p. 71): ‘ They lye 
both buried under the great: marble-stone in the nave of this church, where is 
the above said inscription, above which are their pourtraictures in brasse, and 
an escutcheon now illegible. Beneath this inscription are the small figures of 
nine young children in brasse. This Mr. Bonham’s wife had two children at one 
birth, the first time; and he being troubled at it travelled, and was absent 
seven years. After his returne she was delivered of seven children at one birth. 
In this parish is a confident tradition that these seven children were all baptized 
at the font in this church, and that they were brought thither in a kind of 
chardger, which was dedicated to this church, and hung on two nailes, which 
are to be seen there yet, near the bellfree on the south side. Some old men are 
yet living that doe remember the chardger. This tradition is entered into the 
register booke there, from whence I have taken this narrative (1659).’ [See the 
extract from the register, which is signed by ‘‘ Roger Powell, curate there,” in 
Hoare’s Modern Wilts, (Hundred of Branch and Dole) p. 49.—J.B.] 
III. Note of James Goulden, schoolmaster of Wishford, in 1828 :— 
‘Three old persons of the parish of Wishford, viz., Mary Lewis, Giles 
Munday, and Mary Woodlands, declared to J. Goulden that they had seen the 
sieve hung up in the church.’ 
There is reason to suppose that the two nails (the last relic of this dedicated 
sieve,) were removed at the churchwarden’s repairs of the church in 1829, 
Epwarpd HItt, 
May 31st, 1875.” 
General Weeting and Report for 1875. 
= ae General Annual Meeting of the Society, for the purpose 
of receiving the report, the election of officers, and other 
necessary business, took place at the Society’s Premises, in Devizes, 
on Thursday, September 30th. 
' The Rev. W. C. PLenpsrizatu occupied the chair, and called on 
the Rev. A. C. Sura to read the 
REPORT FOR 1875. 
“The Committee of the Wiltshire Archeological and Natural 
History Society desires to put before the members of the Society 
very briefly a report of last year’s proceedings, and of its present 

position. 

